Monday, February 23, 2015

This bibliography contains journal articles, book chapters, books, edited volumes, theses, grey literature, bibliographies and other resources on terrorism in the Caucasus region, Central Asia, and Russia as well as terrorist activity originating from these regions abroad.

Though focusing on recent (non-Russian language) literature, the bibliography is not restricted to a particular time period and covers publications up to December 2014. The literature has been retrieved by manually browsing more than 200 core and periphery sources in the field of Terrorism Studies. Additionally, full-text and reference retrieval systems have been employed to expand the search.

Friday, February 20, 2015

The formidable expansion and mutation of the so-called "Islamic State" (IS) deriving from the "ISIS" group, also known simply as "Daesh", is heading into a point where important and decisive measures by the international community must be taken.

The ISIS
beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts on a beach in Libya has generated rage
and disdain among the international community, as well as in the Arab
world and a strong reaction from Cairo. The Egyptian and Emirates Air
Force attacks on several sites of the group's stronghold in Derna,
killed over 50 jihadists and destroyed a good part of their
infrastructure. In addition, on Wednsday, Egyptian special forces raided
Derna and captured a vast number of ISIS members.

In the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the offices of French satirical paper Charlie Hebdo and
the subsequent attack by Islamist extremists on a kosher market,
President Barack Obama invited political and religious leaders to a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism.
The whole summit is a bit amorphous and unfortunately seems to be the
latest example of foreign policy by photo-op rather than substance.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Fetullah Gulen's international Islamic movement is for the past few years in the spotlight in Turkey due to his para-state mechanism he was able to orchestrate, with multiple layers of influence within the Police and state security forces and the education apparatus of the country.

The Turkish government, ostensibly a NATO 'ally,' has been forced to
admit that its intelligence service funneled arms to Al-Qaeda’s
affiliate in Syria.

The Turkish government, ostensibly a
NATO “ally,” has been forced to admit that its intelligence service
funneled arms to Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. The so-called “moderate”
Islamist government has been caught in a long cover-up and is threatening to shut down social media outlets that don’t block the reporting of the scandal.